Sunday, January 16, 2011

That Old Black Magic

Ella in Berlin is a live album by the American jazz singer Ella Fitzgerald. This album, recorded February 13, 1960, at the Deutschlandhalle, Berlin, was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame in 1999, which is a special Grammy award established in 1973 to honor recordings that are at least twenty-five years old, and that have "qualitative or historical significance." This live performance earned Ella the Best Female Vocal Performance award (Mack the Knife) and it contains some of her best scat improvisation solos (How High the Moon.)

Immediately after opening and a quick 20 second setting up the stage, she began her concert by singing our song: That Old Black Magic, written by Harold Arlen and lyrics by Johnny Mercer. This is a 3 minute 51 second rendition, our favorite that can never be erased from our memories.
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